Alex has been writing code to make music for people to drink beer and
dance to since the year 2000, performing widely around Europe as a
member of slub ( http://slub.org/ ). He has developed his own
mini-programming language called `Tidal', based on the functional
Haskell language, which he now uses for all his performances,
including a recent collaboration with Scott Hewitt at Access Space.
Tidal is optimised for fast and furious expression of beats and bass
lines. Current work is on a visual front end for Tidal called `Text',
where functions are played with on the screen, connections drawn
between them automatically. The result is a messy visual language for
making broken electronic dance music, with syntax of shape as well as
symbols. Participants at the workshop will be introduced to Text as a
brand new, rather unique approach to programming in live music, and
will be encouraged to feed back criticism and ideas into the
development process.

There are 7 places on this free workshop which will run 11am-4pm
Please book a place by emailing jake@access-space.org